New Reports on Combating Racism and Intolerance: Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia

New Reports on Combating Racism and Intolerance: Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) today published monitoring reports on Austria, the Czech Republic and Estonia.

Austria: ECRI reports, among the main problems, antipathy towards migrants and online hate speech at worrying levels, despite integration policies and awareness raising. [English] [French] [German]

Czech Republic: ECRI expresses serious concern over the lack of progress in eradicating segregation of Roma children in schools and the prevalence of anti-Roma hate speech in political discourse.

[English] [French] [Czech]

Estonia: Concerns remain, such as higher unemployment in regions which are predominantly Russian-speaking, and the unsatisfactory implementation of the new linguistic policy at upper secondary schools. [English] [French] [Estonian]